By: Sibley, Nelson, Haywood S.B. No. 1859
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the creation of the Texas Woman's University System.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. The chapter heading to Chapter 107, Education
1-4 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 CHAPTER 107. TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
1-6 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 107, Education Code, is
1-7 amended by adding Section 107.001 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 107.001. TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. (a) The
1-9 Texas Woman's University System hereby created, in its entirety as
1-10 one appropriations agency, is composed of all those units,
1-11 divisions, institutions, and other agencies of higher education
1-12 presently under the governance, control, jurisdiction, and
1-13 management of the board of regents of Texas Woman's University.
1-14 (b) The governance, control, jurisdiction, organization, and
1-15 management of the Texas Woman's University System and each
1-16 component of the system is hereby vested in the present board of
1-17 regents of Texas Woman's University, which will hereinafter be
1-18 known and designated as the board of regents of Texas Woman's
1-19 University System.
1-20 SECTION 3. Section 107.42, Education Code, is amended to
1-21 read as follows:
1-22 Sec. 107.42. STAFF. The board shall appoint a chancellor or
1-23 president of the university system and other officers and employees
1-24 of the system and its components it deems proper and shall fix
2-1 their salaries. The board shall make rules and regulations for the
2-2 government of the [university's] staff of the system and its
2-3 components as it deems advisable.
2-4 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.